International Women’s day wishes
Logged in to Twitter this morning to see a flood of wishes for a happy women’s day. I replied “Thank you. For today and every day.” which people found witty. […]
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Inflation
Reliance Gas Price issue and Mukesh Ambani FIR for dummies
What is the Reliance Gas Price issue? Why has Arvind Kejriwal filed an FIR against Mukesh Ambani? Why is there so little clear information on the issue? Read the easy to understand version.
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Open letter to Arvind Kejriwal
Dear Arvind, I have been following the IAC movement and then AAP with much interest and I think you have something important going on. I have promised to speak in
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RTI exposes revenue loss of 25,000 cr in Maharashtra
Would you believe that Maharashtra loses orver Rs 25,000 crores annually because of carelessness/corruption, and this has not been exposed so far? Are we really poor or are we thrust
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Open Letter to Chief Minister of Delhi, Mrs. Sheila Dixit
Dear Mrs Dixit, I have read your comments on the Delhi gangrape. I applaud your honesty in admitting failure, in admitting the dangerous condition of Delhi for women and your
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Balasaheb Thackeray has lessons for Indian politics
Bal Thackeray died yesterday, and all hell broke loose among the polarized opinions. Some respected him for what he did. Others saw him as a fascist. There was very little
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Privatization of Water – money at what cost?
had originally written this article for Tehelka, but I don’t think they published it. If they did, let me know, and I can redirect this page there. Recently, the government
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A dialogue on Freedom of Speech and its restrictions
Justice Katju recently put up on his blog some points for consideration on Freedom of Speech. I did think it is vital for there to be a robust debate on
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Self immolations and the unconscious mind
Sunny Singh makes a very intriguing and perceptive observation about the Arab Spring and the rash of self-immolations that it brought. She points out that while self-immolation is known culturally
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